6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

7. He came for a witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.

8. He was not the Light, but was sent that he might bear witness of the Light.

9. That was the true Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world.

10. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

11. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.

12. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, to them who believe in His

name.

13. Who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14. And the Word was made flesh, and tabernacled amongst us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

15. John bare witness of Him, and cried, saying, This was He of whom I said, He that cometh after me, was before me, because He was prior

to me.

That Divine Truth has its appointed representatives, here on earth, amongst those who are principled in charity and faith, whose office it is to testify concerning the LORD's Divine Humanity, and thus to lead mankind to acknowledge and receive it, as the only Source of all wisdom, intelligence, and rationality. (Verses 6-9.)

That the LORD, by His Divine Truth, or the Word, was present with the Jewish church, but that He was not in general known and acknowledged, yet that all, who did know and acknowledge Him, were made regenerate, and thus delivered from the guilt of doing violence to charity, and of profaning truth, being cleansed from all the principles of evil and error. (Verses 10-13.)

That the LORD, by assuming the human nature, and thus becoming a Man, made Himself Divine Truth in ultimates, as He had before been Divine Truth in first principles, and thus gained fuller access to man, by imparting a fuller measure of His Divine Love and Wisdom. (Verse 14.)

Therefore all who are principled in charity and faith, acknowledge from the heart, that the Lord in His Divine Humanity is the eternal God, and that all good and truth

16. And of His fulness have we all received, and grace for grace,

17. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

18. No one hath seen God at any time; the Only-begot ten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath brought Him forth to view.

19. And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, Who art thou?

20. And he confessed, and denied not, and confessed, I am not the Christ.

21. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered, No.

22. Then they said unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them who sent us: What sayest thou of thyself?

23. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.

24. And they who were sent were of the Pharisees.

25. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the Prophet?

26. John answered them, saying, I baptize with water,

are from Him, and that He came into the world to open those interior things of His Word, for the benefit of mankind. kind. (Verses 15, 16, 17.)

They acknowledge also, that no right apprehension can be had of the invisible JEHOVAH, but by or through the visible Humanity, which He assumed and glorified for that purpose. (Verse 18.)

Thus they testify concerning themselves, to those of the perverted church who are inquisitive about them, that they possess no truth or good of themselves, but only from the Word, and that from the Word all in the vastated church are admonished to prepare themselves to receive the LORD in His DIVINE HUMANITY. (Verses 19-23.)

They testify further, that they can teach only external truth, but that the truth itself is the LORD as to His Divine Humanity, who is yet unacknowledged, although He is the very central life of all truths. (Verses 24, 25, 26.)

And has thus pre-eminence over all, since the lowest order of internal truth is above the highest of what is external. (Verse 27.)

Such is the testimony of external truth, derived from the letter of the Word, which testimony presently conducts to a view of internal truth as it is in connexion with the LORD'S Divine Humanity, by virtue of which internal truth confession is made that the LORD in His Divine Humanity is the purest innocence, and that human disorder can never be removed, only so far as that innocence is implanted in human minds. (Verses 28, 29.)

Confession is further made from internal truth, that the LORD, in His Divine Humanity, is the ETERNAL GOD, and that all good and truth are from Him, and that He is to be made known to the church by the teaching of external truth from the Word. (Verses 30, 31.)

Which truth testifies, that all the good and truth of faith, thus all purification and regeneration, are from the Divine Humanity of the LORD and that consequently all internal truth is from the same Source. (Verses 32-35.)

witness, that this is the Son of God.

35. Again on the morrow, John stood and two of his disciples.

36. And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

37. And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

38. Then Jesus turning, and seeing them following, saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where abidest thou?

39. He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he abode, and remained with him that day, and it was about the tenth hour.

40. Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard from John, and followed him.

41. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

42. And he led him to Jesus, and Jesus looking on him, said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: Thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, being interpreted, a stone, (or Peter.)

43. On the morrow, JESUS

That they who are principled in charity, and in the faith of charity, have their spiritual sight opened to behold and to confess the LORD in His Divine Humanity, whom therefore they immediately acknowledge and obey as the only God. (Verses 35, 36, 37.)

And being led by an internal dictate in their own minds to explore and examine the end of all truth, or knowledge, they are led further to inquire after the good of love and charity, to which all truth and knowledge point, and thus attain conjunction with the LORD in that good. (Verses 38, 39.)

That they who are principled in the good of charity instruct those who are principled in the good of faith, concerning the LORD in His Divine Humanity, and thus conduct them to the INCARNATE GOD, by whom they are taught that they, who are principled in truth derived from good, ought to attach themselves to Divine Truth, or to truth proceeding from, and in conjunction with, the LORD's Divine Humanity. (Verses 40, 41, 42.)

That they of the church,

willed to go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. 44. But Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

45. Philip findeth Nathaniel, and saith unto him, We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus, the son of Joseph, of Nazareth.

46. And Nathaniel said unto him, Can any good thing be from Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.

47. Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, truly an Israelite, in whom is no guile.

48. Nathaniel saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

49. Nathaniel answered, and saith unto Him, Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel!

50. Jesus answered, and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.

51. And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, henceforth ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.

who are principled in intelligence, are next instructed to acknowledge all intelligence to be derived from the LORD'S Divine Humanity, and that when they are so instructed, they again instruct those who are principled in charity and its faith, that the LORD is manifested in His Divine Humanity, as was predicted. (Verses 43, 44, 45.)

Which instruction is received with doubt, until conviction is wrought of the Divine Wisdom of that HUMANITY, by the distinction which it makes between spiritual good and natural good, and by setting the former above the latter. (Verses 46-49.)

That this distinction, however, does not produce a conviction equal to that which arises in the course of regeneration, when the internal man is opened to see the several orders of truth in their connexion with the Divine Source, by virtue of which man's ascent to GoD is first effected, and afterwards the descent of GOD to man. (Verses 50, 51.)